Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

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  • Transforming STEM Gateway Teaching and Learning through Interdisciplinary Practices

    NeedWe identified a common set of needs across the university’s introductory STEM Gateway courses for both faculty and students to enhance intellectual value a…

  • Real-World Applications in Mathematics

    In typical mathematics classrooms, concepts are disconnected from real-world examples and local contexts, making it difficult for students to “read and write” …

  • How Can the Underrepresentation Curriculum Increase Representation in Our Communities?

    Caption: Jalisa Ferguson, Ph.D., and Izzy Berry '22 in their James Center lab. Photos by Angelique Herring '19 and Penh Alicandro '22.Why We Need The Underrepr…

  • Want More Women in Geoscience? Consider Their Math Attitudes

    Geoscience has made concerted efforts to increase the number of women entering and graduating from undergraduate geoscience programs, but despite these efforts…

  • Teaching algebra through physics-of-motion activities

    Preservice elementary and middle school teachers are often taught mathematics as if it were an isolated subject, a set of abstract algorithms lacking deeper me…

  • The SOMAS/DS Family of Instruments to Measure Students, Instructors and Learning Environment

    Statistics - the art and science of learning from data - and data science - the ability to engage with big data in various forms - are two of the fastest growi…

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